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Presenting formulae, symbols and powers in the right format is important to maintain the professionalism of the slides. Many users don’t pay attention to superscripts and subscripts in PowerPoint. Surprisingly, we understand that some of you may not have an idea that superscript is and how to subscript in PowerPoint. If you are an instructor,…

Videos, audio, and other types of media files are important parts of PowerPoint presentations. Some users may face trouble playing media files. If you are also facing issues like PowerPoint cannot play media, how to fix this issue? There are many reasons that might trigger a media playback error in PowerPoint. Understanding the real reason…

PowerPoint presentations can have multiple slides, even up to a hundred slides. If you are asked to delete all slides at once, how to select all slides in PowerPoint? Don’t you think that selecting 100 slides one by one will take quite long? There should be a better way to select all slides in a…

Working on a long PowerPoint presentation can be frustrating. You spend 20-30 minutes on a slide and then move to the next slide, which is similar to the last one. Have you ever wondered how to duplicate a slide in PowerPoint to speed up the process? Is it possible to duplicate a slide to use…

Human touch can make any learning experience more engaging and effective. Students can pay more attention if video narration is available to explain complicated topics. As an instructor, teacher, or marketer, how do you record yourself on PowerPoint? How to record a presentation where you can add real-time video recording of yourself explaining the slides?…

Flow charts are one of those tools that sound more complicated than they are. At the end of the day, you’re just drawing shapes, connecting them with arrows and showing how something moves from one step to the next. And while most people think of specialized diagram tools like Lucidchart or Visio, the truth is,…

If you’ve ever sat in a meeting and heard someone say, “Send me your deck,” you might have wondered if they just mean your PowerPoint. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t. And that’s where the confusion starts.  Most of us use the terms “slide deck” and “PowerPoint presentation” interchangeably, but they’re not actually identical. The…

PowerPoint allows copying content or slides from one presentation to another, just like copying data from one folder to another. Right, left clicks, and CTRL-C, CTRL-V keys are also usable for copying slides. When you are working on multiple presentations, you must learn how to copy slides from one PowerPoint to another. If two presentations…

If you’ve ever tried giving a presentation without notes, you know the feeling: you either memorize everything (and risk blanking mid-slide) or you end up reading directly off the slide, which makes you sound stiff and disconnected. That’s why PowerPoint has a built-in notes feature. It’s like having a cheat sheet only you can see,…

You know the scene: you’re in the middle of building a PowerPoint deck and someone says, “Can you make the background image less… loud?” What they’re really asking is for some transparency magic. It’s one of those features that sounds fancy but takes about ten seconds once you know where to click.  The funny part…

After spending 3 long hours designing some attractive slides, an unexpected error happened, and PowerPoint crashed before you could save the presentation. You are frustrated because you lost your work, but don’t worry, no need to panic. PowerPoint has a feature to recover unsaved files. How to recover unsaved PowerPoint in case of a power…

PowerPoint presentations are easy to create but giving them a professional and engaging look is the real challenge. If you are new to this software, it is easy to learn how to create a PowerPoint presentation step by step in a few minutes. Presentations are an important part of life as a student, teacher, corporate…